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[Scan]

When you scan a subway car to see if your friend is on it, your eyes pass quickly across the riders. When you get a scan of your knee at the doctor's office, a much more detailed picture is taken, showing your bones, tendons, and muscles.

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To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

Noun
the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars"

Noun
an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"

Verb
obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"

Verb
read metrically; "scan verses"

Verb
make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"

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Verb
move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image

Verb
examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"

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examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"

Verb
conform to a metrical pattern


v. t.
To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.


Scan

Scan , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scanned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scanning.] [L. scandere, scansum, to climb, to scan, akin to Skr. skand to spring, leap: cf. F. scander. Cf. Ascend, Descend, Scale a ladder.] 1. To mount by steps; to go through with step by step. [Obs.]
Nor stayed till she the highest stage had scand.
2. Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically. 3. To go over and examine point by point; to examine with care; to look closely at or into; to scrutinize.
The actions of men in high stations are all conspicuous, and liable to be scanned and sifted.

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

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Usage Examples

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

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